OSU attacker may have written Facebook post telling US to 'stop interfering' with Muslim countries

Multiple reports have suggested Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the 18-year-old whom the police fatally shot after he attacked students and faculty members at Ohio State University on Monday, may have posted a rant to Facebook just before the rampage.

Fox News first reported that law-enforcement officials were investigating a post they believe Artan wrote that described being "sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE" (emphasis the author's).

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COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 28: Police keep the roads closed around Watts Hall following an attack on the campus of the Ohio State University on November 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were injured when a suspect reportedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians and slashed several people with a knife before being fatally shot by university police. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 28: Police keep the roads closed around Watts Hall following an attack on the campus of the Ohio State University on November 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were injured when a suspect reportedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians and slashed several people with a knife before being fatally shot by university police. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

Law enforcement officials are seen outside of a parking garage on the campus of Ohio State University as they respond to an active attack in Columbus, Ohio, on November 28, 2016.
Eight people were injured when an attacker apparently drove into a crowd at Ohio State University on Monday, triggering an hours-long lockdown before authorities declared the campus secure. Law enforcement shot and killed one suspect, according to local television station WBNS, which reported that police led two people out in handcuffs from a garage they had surrounded on the university's main campus in Columbus.
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Law enforcement officials are seen outside of a parking garage on the campus of Ohio State University as they respond to an active attack in Columbus, Ohio, on November 28, 2016.
Eight people were injured when an attacker apparently drove into a crowd at Ohio State University on Monday, triggering an hours-long lockdown before authorities declared the campus secure. Law enforcement shot and killed one suspect, according to local television station WBNS, which reported that police led two people out in handcuffs from a garage they had surrounded on the university's main campus in Columbus.
/ AFP / Paul Vernon (Photo credit should read PAUL VERNON/AFP/Getty Images)

A law enforcement official motions for people to leave the area outside of a parking garage on the campus of Ohio State University as they respond to an active attack in Columbus, Ohio, on November 28, 2016.
Eight people were injured when an attacker apparently drove into a crowd at Ohio State University on Monday, triggering an hours-long lockdown before authorities declared the campus secure. Law enforcement shot and killed one suspect, according to local television station WBNS, which reported that police led two people out in handcuffs from a garage they had surrounded on the university's main campus in Columbus.
/ AFP / Paul Vernon (Photo credit should read PAUL VERNON/AFP/Getty Images)

Law enforcement officials are seen searching in a parking garage on the campus of Ohio State University as they respond to an active attack in Columbus, Ohio, on November 28, 2016.
Eight people were injured when an attacker apparently drove into a crowd at Ohio State University on Monday, triggering an hours-long lockdown before authorities declared the campus secure. Law enforcement shot and killed one suspect, according to local television station WBNS, which reported that police led two people out in handcuffs from a garage they had surrounded on the university's main campus in Columbus.
/ AFP / Paul Vernon (Photo credit should read PAUL VERNON/AFP/Getty Images)

COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 28: Ohio State University President Michael Drake addresses the media outside of the Wexner Medical Center on the attacks that took place on campus earlier in the day on November 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were injured when a suspect reportedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians and slashed several people with a knife before being fatally shot by university police. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 28: Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther (R) listens as Ohio State University President Michael Drake addresses the media outside of the Wexner Medical Center on the attacks that took place on campus earlier in the day on November 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were injured when a suspect reportedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians and slashed several people with a knife before being fatally shot by university police. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

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Artan was a legal permanent resident who came to the US with his parents in 2014. The family had lived in Pakistan for several years after fleeing Somalia in 2007, according to CNN.

"America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah," the Facebook post said, according to a screenshot from NBC News, using the Arabic word for "community." "If you want us Muslims to stop carrying out lone wolf attacks, then make peace with 'dawla in al sham.' Make a pact or a treaty with them where you promise to leave them alone."

Officer Alan Horujko of the Ohio State campus police reportedly shot Artan dead just one minute after the attack began. Chief Craig Stone of the Ohio State University Police Division said Monday afternoon he was "confident" that Artan was the only attacker.

ISIS, the terrorist group also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh, has been urging its followers to copy the Bastille Day attack in France, in which a man drove a large truck through a crowd of people, killing 84. The terrorist group also recently posted a video explaining how to conduct a knife attack, ABC News reported.

"I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But, I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads so they're just going to have it and it, it's going to make them feel uncomfortable. I was kind of scared right now. But I just did it. I relied on God. I went over to the corner and just prayed."

The police haven't identified a motive for the attack and are still investigating.

"This is a shock," Omar said. "As a Somali community here, we are in a state of shock. In Columbus, we live in a very peaceful community. This is going to affect the life of everybody. We are American, and we don't want somebody to create this problem."